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Issued  December  12, 1912. 


United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

OFFICE  OF  EXPERIMENT  STATIONS— CIRCULAR  111  (Rev.). 
A.  C.  True,  Director. 


Washington,  D.  C,  October  1,  1912. 
Sib:  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  herewith  and  to  recommend  for 
publication  as  Circular  111,  revised,  of  this  Office,  a  compilation  of 
Federal  legislation,  regulations,  and  rulings  affecting  the  agricul- 
tural colleges  and  experiment  stations. 

Respectfully,  A.  C.  True,  Director. 

Hon.  James  Wilson, 

Secretary  of  Agriculture. 


FEDERAL  LEGISLATION,  REGULATIONS,  AND  RULINGS  AFFECT- 
ING AGRICULTURAL  COLLEGES  AND  EXPERIMENT  STATIONS. 

[Revised  to  Oct.  1,  1912.] 

ACT    OF    1862   DONATING   LANDS   FOR   AGRICULTURAL    COLLEGES. 

[First  Morrill  Act.] 

AN  ACT  Donating  public  lands  to  the  several  States  and  Territories  which  may  provide 
colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United 
States  of  America  in  Congress  assembled,  That  there  be  granted  to  the  several 
States,  for  the  purposes  hereinafter  mentioned,  an  amount  of  public  land,  to  be 
apportioned  to  each  State  a  quantity  equal  to  thirty  thousand  acres  for  each 
Senator  and  Representative  in  Congress  to  which  the  States  are  respectively 
entitled  by  the  apportionment  under  the  census  of  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty : 
Provided,  That  no  mineral  lands  shall  be  selected  or  purchased  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  act. 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  the  land  aforesaid,  after  being  sur- 
veyed, shall  be  apportioned  to  the  several  States  in  sections  or  subdivisions  of 
sections,  not  less  than  one-quarter  of  a  section ;  and  whenever  there  are  public 
lands  in  a  State  subject  to  sale  at  private  entry  at  one  dollar  and  twenty-five 
cents  per  acre,  the  quantity  to  which  said  State  shall  be  entitled  shall  be 
selected  from  such  lands  within  the  limits  of  such  State,  and  the  Secretary  of 
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the  Interior  is  hereby  directed  to  issue  to  each  of  the  States  in  which  there  is 
not  the  quantity  of  public  lands  subject  to  sale  at  private  entry  at  one  dollar 
and  twenty-five  cents  per  acre  to  which  said  State  may  be  entitled  under  the 
provisions  of  this  act  land  scrip  to  the  amount  in  acres  for  the  deficiency  of  its 
distributive  share ;  said  scrip  to  be  sold  by  said  States  and  the  proceeds  thereof 
applied  to  the  uses  and  purposes  prescribed  in  this  act  and  for  no  other  use  or 
purpose  whatsoever:  Provided,  That  in  no  case  shall  any  State  to  which  land 
scrip  may  thus  be  issued  be  allowed  to  locate  the  same  within  the  limits  of  any 
other  State  or  of  any  Territory  of  the  United  States,  but  their  assignees  may 
thus  locate  said  land  scrip  upon  any  of  the  unappropriated  lands  of  the  United 
States  subject  to  sale  at  private  entry  at  one  dollar  and  twenty-five  cents,  or 
less,  per  acre :  And  provided  further,  That  not  more  than  one  million  acres  shall 
be  located  by  such  assignees  in  any  one  of  the  States:  And  provided  further, 
That  no  such  location  shall  be  made  before  one  year  from  the  passage  of 
this  act. 

Sec.  3.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  all  the  expenses  of  management,  super- 
intendence, and  taxes  from  date  of  selection  of  said  lands,  previous  to  their 
sales,  and  all  expenses  incurred  in  the  management  and  disbursement  of  the 
moneys  which  may  be  received  therefrom,  shall  be  paid  by  the  States  to  which 
they  may  belong,  out  of  the  treasury  of  said  States,  so  that  the  entire  proceeds 
of  the  sale  of  said  lands  shall  be  applied  without  any  diminution  whatever  to 
the  purposes  hereinafter  mentioned. 

Sec.  4  (original).  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  all  moneys  derived  from 
the  sale  of  the  lands  aforesaid  by  the  States  to  which  the  lands  are  appor- 
tioned, and  from  the  sales  of  land  scrip  hereinbefore  provided  for,  shall  be 
invested  in  stocks  of  the  United  States  or  of  the  States,  or  some  other  safe 
stocks,  yielding  not  less  than  five  per  centum  upon  the  par  value  of  said  stocks ; 
and  that  the  moneys  so  invested  shall  constitute  a  perpetual  fund,  the  capital 
of  which  shall  remain  forever  undiminished  (except  so  far  as  may  be  provided 
in  section  five  of  this  act),  and  the  interest  of  which  shall  be  inviolably  appro- 
priated, by  each  State  which  may  take  and  claim  the  benefit  of  this  act,  to  the 
endowment,  support,  and  maintenance  of  at  least  one  college  where  the  leading 
object  shall  be,  without  excluding  other  scientific  and  classical  studies,  and 
including  military  tactics,  to  teach  such  branches  of  learning  as  are  related  to 
to  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts,  in  such  manner  as  the  legislatures  of  the 
States  may  respectively  prescribe,  in  order  to  promote  the  liberal  and  practical 
education  of  the  industrial  classes  in  the  several  pursuits  and  professions 
in  life. 

Sec  4  (as  amended  Mar.  3,  1883).  That  all  moneys  derived  from  the  sale  of* 
lands  aforesaid  by  the  States  to  which  lands  are  apportioned,  and  from  the 
sales  of  land  scrip  hereinbefore  provided  for,  shall  be  invested  in  stocks  of  the 
United  States  or  of  the  States,  or  some  other  safe  stocks;  or  the  same  may  be 
invested  by  the  States  having  no  State  stocks  in  any  other  manner  after  the 
legislatures  of  such  States  shall  have  assented  thereto,  and  engaged  that  such 
funds  shall  yield  not  less  than  five  per  centum  upon  the  amount  so  invested  and 
that  the  principal  thereof  shall  forever  remain  unimpaired :  Provided,  That  the 
moneys  so  invested  or  loaned  shall  constitute  a  perpetual  fund,  the  capital  of 
which  shall  remain  forever  undiminished  (except  so  far  as  may  be  provided  in 
section  five  of  this  act),  and  the  interest  of  which  shall  be  inviolably  appro- 
priated, by  each  State  which  may  take  and  claim  the  benefit  of  this  act,  to  the 
endowment,  support,  and  maintenance  of  at  least  one  college  where  the  leading 
object  shall  be,  without  excluding  other  scientific  and  classical  studies,  and 
including  military  tactics,  to  teach  such  branches  of  learning  as  are  related  to 
agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts,  in  such  manner  as  the  legislatures  of  the 
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States  may  respectively  prescribe,  in  order  to  promote  the  liberal  and  practical 
education  of  the  industrial  classes  in  the  several  pursuits  and  professions  in  life. 

Sec.  5.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  the  grant  of  land  and  land  scrip 
hereby  authorized  shall  be  made  on  the  following  conditions,  to  which,  as  well 
as  to  the  provisions  hereinbefore  contained,  the  previous  assent  of  the  several 
States  shall  be  signified  by  legislative  acts: 

First.  If  any  portion  of  the  fund  invested,  as  provided  by  the  foregoing  sec- 
tion, or  any  portion  of  the  interest  thereon,  shall,  by  any  action  or  contingency, 
be  diminished  or  lost,  it  shall  be  replaced  by  the  State  to  which  it  belongs,  so 
that  the  capital  of  the  fund  shall  remain  forever  undiminished;  and  the  annual 
interest  shall  be  regularly  applied  without  diminution  to  the  purposes  mentioned 
in  the  fourth  section  of  this  act,  except  that  a  sum,  not  exceeding  ten  per  centum 
upon  the  amount  received  by  any  State  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  may  be 
expended  for  the  purchase  of  lands  for  sites  or  experimental  farms  whenever 
authorized  by  the  respective  legislatures  of  said  States. 

Second.  No  portion  of  said  fund,  nor  the  interest  thereon,  shall  be  applied, 
directly  or  indirectly,  under  any  pretense  whatever,  to  the  purchase,  erection, 
preservation,  or  repair  of  any  building  or  buildings. 

Third.  Any  State  which  may  take  and  claim  the  benefit  of  the  provisions  of 
this  act  shall  provide,  within  five  years,  at  least  not  less  than  one  college,  as 
described  in  the  fourth  section  of  this  act,  or  the  grant  to  such  State  shall 
cease;  and  said  State  shall  be  bound  to  pay  the  United  States  the  amount  re- 
ceived of  any  lands  previously  sold  and  that  the  title  to  purchasers  under  the 
State  shall  be  valid. 

Fourth.  An  annual  report  shall  be  made  regarding  the  progress  of  each  col- 
lege, recording  any  improvements  and  experiments  made,  with  their  cost  and 
results,  and  such  other  matters,  including  State  industrial  and  economical  sta- 
tistics, as  may  be  supposed  useful,  one  copy  of  which  shall  be  transmitted  by 
mail  free,  by  each,  to  all  the  other  colleges  which  may  be  endowed  under  the 
provisions  of  this  act,  and  also  one  copy  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior. 

Fifth.  When  lands  shall  be  selected  from  those  which  have  been  raised  to 
double  the  minimum  price,  in  consequence  of  railroad  grants,  they  shall  be  com- 
puted to  the  States  at  the  maximum  price  and  the  number  of  acres  propor- 
tionately diminished. 

Sixth.  No  State  while  in  a  condition  of  rebellion  or  insurrection  against  the 
Government  of  the  United  States  shall  be  entitled  to  the  benefit  of  this  act. 

Seventh.  No  State  shall  be  entitled  to  the  benefits  of  this  act  unless  it  shall 
express  its  acceptance  thereof  by  its  legislature  within  two  years  from  the  date 
of  its  approval  by  the  President. 

Sec  6.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  land  scrip  issued  under  the  provisions 
of  this  act  shall  not  be  subject  to  location  until  after  the  first  day  of  January, 
one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-three. 

Sf.c.  7.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  land  officers  shall  receive  the  same 
fees  for  locating  land  scrip  issued  under  the  provisions  of  this  act  as  is  now 
allowed  for  the  location  of  military  bounty  land  warrants  under  existing  laws: 
Provided,  That  their  maximum  compensation  shall  not  be  thereby  increased. 

Sec  8.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  governors  of  the  several  States  to 
which  scrip  shall  be  issued  under  this  act  shall  be  required  to  report  annually 
to  Congress  all  sales  made  of  such  scrip  until  the  whole  shall  be  disposed  of,  the 
amount  received  for  the  same,  and  what  appropriation  has  been  made  of  the 
proceeds. 

Approved,  July  2,  1862  (12  Stat.  L.,  503). 
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ACT   OF    1866   EXTENDING   THE   TIME   WITHIN   WHICH   AGRICUL- 
TURAL  COLLEGES   MAY   BE   ESTABLISHED. 

AN  ACT  To  amend  the  fifth  section  of  an  act  entitled  "An  act  donating  public  lands  to 
the  several  States  and  Territories  which  may  provide  colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agri- 
culture and  the  mechanic  arts,"  approved  July  2,  1862,  so  as  to  extend  the  time  within 
which  the  provisions  of  said  act  shall  be  accepted  and  such  colleges  established. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United 
States  of  America  in  Congress  ^assembled,  That  the  time  in  which  the  several 
States  may  comply  with  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  July  second,  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  sixty-two,  entitled  "An  act  donating  public  lands  to  the  several  States 
and  Territories  which  may  provide  colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture  and 
the  mechanic  arts,"  is  hereby  extended  so  that  the  acceptance  of  the  benefits  of 
the  said  act  may  be  expressed  within  three  years  from  the  passage  of  this  act, 
and  the  colleges  required  by  the  said  act  may  be  provided  within  five  years  from 
the  date  of  the  filing  of  such  acceptance  with  the  Commissioner  of  the  General 
Land  Office:  Provided,  That  when  any  Territory  shall  become  a  State  and  be  ad- 
mitted into  the  Union  such  new  State  shall  be  entitled  to  the  benefits  of  the  said 
act  of  July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  by  expressing  the  acceptance 
therein  required  within  three  years  from  the  date  of  its  admission  into  the 
Union,  and  providing  the  college  or  colleges  within  five  years  after  such  accept- 
ance, as  prescribed  in  this  act:  Provided  further,  That  any  State  which  has 
heretofore  expressed  its  acceptance  of  the  act  herein  referred  to  shall  have  the 
period  of  five  years  within  which  to  provide  at  least  one  college,  as  described  in 
the  fourth  section  of  said  act,  after  the  time  for  providing  said  college,  according 
to  the  act  of  July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  shall  have  expired. 

Approved,  July  23,  1866  (14  Stat.  L.,  208). 

ACT  OF  1890  FOR  THE  FURTHER  ENDOWMENT  OF  AGRICULTURAL 

COLLEGES. 

[Second  Morrill  Act.] 

AN  ACT  To  apply  a  portion  of  the  proceeds  of  the  public  lands  to  the  more  complete  en- 
dowment and  support  of  the  colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts 
established  under  the  provisions  of  an  act  of  Congress  approved  July  second,  eighteen 
hundred   and   sixty-two. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United 
States  of  America  in  Congress  assembled,  That  there  shall  be,  and  hereby  is, 
annually  appropriated,  out  of  any  money  in  the  Treasury  not  otherwise  appro- 
priated, arising  from  the  sales  of  public  lands,  to  be  paid  as  hereinafter  pro- 
vided, to  each  State  and  Territory  for  the  more  complete  endowment  and  main- 
tenance of  colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts  now 
established,  or  which  may  be  hereafter  established,  in  accordance  with  an  act  of 
Congress  approved  July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  the  sum  of 
fifteen  thousand  dollars  for  the  year  ending  June  thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred 
and  ninety,  and  an  annual  increase  of  the  amount  of  such  appropriation  there- 
after for  ten  years  by  an  additional  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars  over  the  pre- 
ceding year,  and  the  annual  amount  to  be  paid  thereafter  to  each  State  and 
Territory  shall  be  twenty-five  thousand  dollars,  to  be  applied  only  to  instruction 
in  agriculture,  the  mechanic  arts,  the  English  language,  and  the  various 
branches  of  mathematical,  physical,  natural,  and  economic  science,  with  special 
reference  to  their  applications  in  the  industries  of  life  and  to  the  facilities  for 
such  instruction :  Provided,  Th«it  no  money  shall  be  paid  out  under  this  act  to 
any  State  or  Territory  for  the  support  and  maintenance  of  a  college  where  a 

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distinction  of  race  or  color  is  made  in  the  admission  of  students,  but  the  estab- 
lishment and  maintenance  of  such  colleges  separately  for  white  and  colored 
students  shall  be  held  to  be  a  compliance  with  the  provisions  of  this  act  if  the 
funds  received  in  such  State  or  Territory  be  equitably  divided  as  hereinafter 
sot  forth:  Provided.  That  in  any  State  in  which  there  has  been  one  college 
established  in  pursuance  of  the  act  of  July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- 
two,  and  also  in  which  an  educational  institution  of  like  character  has  been 
established,  or  may  be  hereafter  established,  and  is  now.  aided  by  such  State 
from  its  own  revenue,  for  the  education  of  colored  students  in  agriculture  and 
the  mechanic  arts,  however  named  or  styled,  or  whether  or  not  it  has  received 
money  heretofore  under  the  act  to  which  this  act  is  an  amendment,  the  legis- 
lature of  such  State  may  propose  and  report  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior  a 
just  and  equitable  division  of  the  fund  to  be  received  under  this  act,  between 
one  college  for  white  students  and  one  institution  for  colored  students,  estab- 
lished as  aforesaid,  which  shall  be  divided  into  two  parts,  and  paid  accordingly, 
and  thereupon  such  institution  for  colored  students  shall  be  entitled  to  the 
benefits  of  this  act  and  subject  to  its  provisions,  as  much  as  it  would  have  been 
if  it  had  been  included  under  the  act  of  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and 
the  fulfillment  of  the  foregoing  provisions  shall  be  taken  as  a  compliance  with 
the  provision  in  reference  to  separate  colleges  for  white  and  colored  students. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  sums  hereby  appropriated  to  the  States  and  Territories  for 
the  further  endowment  and  support  of  colleges  shall  be  annually  paid  on  or 
before  the  thirty-first  day  of  July  of  each  year,  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Treas- 
ury, upon  the  warrant  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior,  out  of  the  Treasury  of 
the  United  States,  to  the  State  or  Territorial  treasurer,  or  to  such  officer  as 
shall  be  designated  by  the  laws  of  such  State  or  Territory  to  receive  the  same, 
who  shall,  upon  the  order  of  the  trustees  of  the  college  or  the  institution  for 
colored  students,  immediately  pay  over  said  sums  to  the  treasurers  of  the 
respective  colleges  or  other  institutions  entitled  to  receive  the  same,  and  such 
treasurers  shall  be  required  to  report  to  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  and  to 
the  Secretary  of  the  Interior,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  September  of  each 
year,  a  detailed  statement  of  the  amount  so  received  and  of  its  disbursement. 
The  grants  of  moneys  authorized  by  this  act  are  made  subject  to  the  legislative 
assent  of  the  several  States  and  Territories  to  the  purpose  of  said  grants: 
Provided,  That  payments  of  such  installments  of  the  appropriation  herein  made 
ns  shall  become  due  to  any  State  before  the  adjournment  of  the  regular  session 
of  legislature  meeting  next  after  the  passage  of  this  act  shall  be  made  upon  the 
assent  of  the  governor  thereof,  duly  certified  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury. 

Sec  3.  That  if  any  portion  of  the  moneys  received  by  the  designated  officer  of 
the  State  or  Territory  for  the  further  and  more  complete  endowment,  support, 
and  maintenance  of  colleges,  or  of  institutions  for  colored  students,  as  provided 
in  this  act,  shall,  by  any  action  or  contingency,  be  dismissed  or  lost,  or  be  misap- 
plied, it  shall  be  replaced  by  the  State  or  Territory  to  which  it  belongs,  and  until 
so  replaced  no  subsequent  appropriation  shall  be  apportioned  or  paid  to  such 
State  or  Territory;  and  no  portion  of  said  moneys  shall  be  applied,  directly  or 
indirectly,  under  any  pretense  whatever,  to  the  purchase,  erection,  preservation, 
or  repair  of  any  building  or  buildings.  An  annual  report  by  the  president  of 
each  of  said  colleges  shall  be  made  to  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  as  well  as 
to  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior,  regarding  the  condition  and  progress  of  each 
college,  including  statistical  information  in  relation  to  its  receipts  and  expendi- 
tures, its  library,  the  number  of  its  students  and  professors,  and  also  as  to  any 
improvements  and  exj>eriments  made  under  the  direction  of  any  experiment 
stations  attached  to  said  colleges,  with  their  cost  and  results  and  such  other 
industrial  and  economical  statistics  as  may  be  regarded  as  useful,  one  copy  of 
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which  shall  be  transmitted  by  mail  free  to  all  other  colleges  further  endowed 
under  this  act. 

Sec.  4.  That  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  July  in  each  year,  after  the  passage 
of  this  act,  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior  shall  ascertain  and  certify  to  the  Sec- 
retary of  the  Treasury  as  to  each  State  and  Territory  whether  it  is  entitled  to 
receive  its  share  of  the  annual  appropriation  for  colleges,  or  of  institutions  for 
colored  students,  under  this  act,  and  the  amount  which  thereupon  each  is 
entitled,  respectively,,  to  receive.  If  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior  shall  with- 
hold a  certificate  from  any  State  or  Territory  of  its  appropriation,  the  facts 
and  reasons  therefor  shall  be  reported  to  the  President,  and  the  amount  in- 
volved shall  be  kept  separate  in  the  Treasury  until  the  close  of  the  next  Con- 
gress, in  order  that  the  State  or  Territory  may,  if  it  should  so  desire,  appeal 
to  Congress  from  the  determination  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior.  If  the 
next  Congress  shall  not  direct  such  sum  to  be  paid,  it  shall  be  covered  into  the 
Treasury.  And  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior  is  hereby  charged  with  the  proper 
administration  of  this  law. 

Sec  5.  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior  shall  annually  report  to  Congress 
the  disbursements  which  have  been  made  in  all  the  States  and  Territories,  and 
also  whether  the  appropriation  of  any  State  or  Territory  has  been  withheld, 
and,  if  so,  the  reasons  therefor. 

Sec  6.  Congress  may  at  any  time  amend,  suspend,  or  repeal  any  or  all  of  the 
provisions  of  this  act. 

Approved,  August  30,  1890  (26  Stat.  L.,  417). 

CLAUSE  IN  ACT  MAKING  APPROPRIATIONS  FOR  THE  UNITED 
STATES  DEPARTMENT  OF  AGRICULTURE  FOR  THE  FISCAL  YEAR 
ENDING  JUNE  30,  1908,  FOR  THE  FURTHER  ENDOWMENT  OF 
AGRICULTURAL   COLLEGES. 

[Nelson  amendment] 

*  *  *  That  there  shall  be,  and  hereby  is,  annually  appropriated,  out  of  any 
money  in  the  Treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  be  paid  as  hereinafter 
provided,  to  each  State  and  Territory  for  the  more  complete  endowment  and 
maintenance  of  agricultural  colleges  now  established,  or  which  may  hereafter 
be  established,  in  accordance  with  the  act  of  Congress  approved  July  second, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  the  act  of  Congress  approved  August  thir- 
tieth, eighteen  hundred  and  ninety,  the  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars,  in  addi- 
tion to  the  sums  named  in  the  said  act,  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  thirtieth, 
nineteen  hundred  and  eight,  and  an  annual  increase  of  the  amount  of  such 
appropriation  thereafter  for  four  years  by  an  additional  sum  of  five  thousand 
dollars  over  the  preceding  year,  and  the  annual  sum  to  be  paid  thereafter  to 
each  State  and  Territory  shall  be  fifty  thousand  dollars,  to  be  applied  only  for 
the  purposes  of  the  agricultural  colleges  as  defined  and  limited  in  the  act  of 
Congress  approved  July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  the  act 
of  Congress  approved  August  thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety. 

That  the  sum  hereby  appropriated  to  the  States  and  Territories  for  the 
further  endowment  and  support  of  the  colleges  shall  be  paid  by,  to,  and  in  the 
manner  prescribed  by  the  act  of  Congress  approved  August  thirtieth,  eighteen 
hundred  and  ninety,  entitled  "An  act  to  apply  a  portion  of  the  proceeds  of  the 
public  lands  to  the  more  complete  endowment  and  support  of  the  colleges  for 
the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts  established  under  the  provi- 
sions of  an  act  of  Congress  approved  July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- 
two,"  and  the  expenditure  of  the  said  money  shall  be  governed  in  all  respects 
by  the  provisions  of  the  said  act  of  Congress  approved  July  second,  eighteen 
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hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  the  said  act  of  Congress  approved  August  thirtieth, 
eighteen  hundred  and  ninety :  Provided,  That  said  colleges  may  use  a  portion 
of  this  money  for  providing  courses  for  the  special  preparation  of  instructors 
for  teaching  the  elements  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts. 
Approved,  March  4,  1907  (34  Stat.  L.,  1256,  1281). 

ACTS  OF  1888  AND  1891  PROVIDING  FOR  DETAIL  OF  UNITED 
STATES  ARMY  AND  NAVY  OFFICERS  TO  THE  LAND-GRANT 
COLLEGES. 

[Act  of  1888.] 

AN  ACT  To  amend  section  twelve  hundred  and  twenty-five  of  the  Revised  Statutes,  con- 
cerning details  of  officers  of  the  Army  and  Navy  to  educational  institutions,  and  so 
forth. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United  States 
of  America  in  Congress  assembled,  That  section  twelve  hundred  and  twenty- 
five  of  the  Revised  Statutes  of  the  United  States,  as  amended  by  an  act  of 
Congress  approved  July  fifth,  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-four,  be,  and  the 
same  is  hereby,  further  amended,  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

M  Sec.  1225.  The  President  may,  upon  the  application  of  any  established  mili- 
tary institute,  seminary  or  academy,  college  or  university,  within  the  United 
States  having  capacity  to  educate  at  the  same  time  not  less  than  one  hundred 
and  fifty  male  students,  detail  an  officer  of  the  Army  or  Navy  to  act  as  super- 
intendent or  professor  thereof;  but  the  number  of  officers  so  detailed  shall  not 
exceed  fifty  from  the  Army  and  ten  from  the  Navy,  being  a  maximum  of  sixty, 
at  any  time,  and  they  shall  be  apportioned  throughout  the  United  States,  first, 
to  those  State  institutions  applying  for  such  detail  that  are  required  to  provide 
instruction  in  military  tactics  under  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  Congress  of 
July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  donating  lands  for  the  establish- 
ment of  colleges  where  the  leading  object  shall  be  the  practical  instruction  of 
the  industrial  classes  in  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts,  including  military 
tactics ;  and  after  that,  said  details  to  be  distributed,  as  nearly  as  may  be  prac- 
ticable, according  to  population.  The  Secretary  of  War  is  authorized  to  issue, 
at  his  discretion  and  under  proper  regulations  to  be  prescribed  by  him,  out  of 
ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  belonging  to  the  Government,  and  which  can  be 
spared  for  that  purpose,  such  number  of  the  same  as  may  appear  to  be  required 
for  military  instruction  and  practice  by  the  students  of  any  college  or  university 
under  the  provisions  of  this  section,  and  the  Secretary  shall  require  a  bond  iu 
each  case,  in  double  the  value  of  the  property,  for  the  care  and  safe-keeping 
thereof  and  for  the  return  of  the  same  when  required :  Provided,  That  nothing 
in  this  act  shall  be  so  construed  as  to  prevent  the  detail  of  officers  of  the 
Engineer  Corps  of  the  Navy  as  professors  in  scientific  schools  or  colleges  as 
now  provided  by  act  of  Congress  approved  February  twenty-sixth,  eighteen 
hundred  and  seventy-nine,  entitled  'An  act  to  promote  a  knowledge  of  steam 
engineering  and  iron-ship  building  among  the  students  of  scientific  schools  or  col- 
leges in  the  United  States ' ;  and  the  Secretary  of  War  is  hereby  authorized  to 
issue  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  belonging  to  the  Government  on  the  terms  and 
conditions  hereinbefore  provided  to  any  college  or  university  at  which  a  retired 
officer  of  the  Army  may  be  assigned  as  provided  by  section  twelve  hundred  and 
sixty  of  the  Revised  Statutes. 

"  Sec.  2.  That  the  said  section  twelve  hundred  and  twenty-five  of  the  Revised 
Statutes  of  the  United  States,  as  amended  by  the  said  act  of  Congress  approved 
July  fifth,  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-four,  and  all  acts  and  parts  of  acts  in- 
consistent or  in  conflict  with  the  provisions  of  this  act,  be,  and  the  same  are 
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hereby,  repealed,  saving  always,  however,  all  acts  and  things  done  under  the 
said  amended  section  as  heretofore  existing." 
Approved,  September  26,  1888.     (25  Stat.  L.,  491.) 

[Act  of  1891.] 

AN  ACT  To  amend  section  twelve  hundred  and  twenty-five  of  the  Revised  Statutes,  con- 
cerning details  of  officers  of  the  Army  and  Navy  to  educational  institutions. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United  States 
of  America  in  Congress  assembled,  That  section  twelve  hundred  and  twenty-five 
of  the  Revised  Statutes,  concerning  details  of  officers  of  the  Army  and  Navy  to 
educational  institutions,  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby,  amended  so  as  to  permit 
the  President  to  detail,  under  the  provisions  of  said  act,  not  to  exceed  seventy- 
five  officers  of  the  Army  of  the  United  States;  and  the  maximum  number  of 
officers  of  the  Army  and  Navy  to  be  detailed  at  any  one  time  under  the  provi- 
sions of  the  act  passed  September  twenty-sixth,  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty- 
eight,  amending  said  section  twelve  hundred  and  twenty-five  of  the  Revised 
Statutes,  is  hereby  increased  to  eighty-five:  Provided,  That  no  officer  shall  be 
detailed  to  or  maintained  at  any  of  the  educational  institutions  mentioned  in 
said  act  where  instruction  and  drill  in  military  tactics  is  not  given:  Provided 
further,  That  nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  so  construed  as  to  prevent  the  detail 
of  officers  of  the  Engineer  Corps  of  the  Navy  as  professors  in  scientific  schools 
or  colleges  as  now  provided  by  act  of  Congress  approved  February  twenty-sixth, 
eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-nine,  entitled  "An  act  to  promote  a  knowledge  of 
steam  engineering  and  iron-ship  building  among  the  students  of  scientific  schools 
or  colleges  in  the  United  States." 

Approved,  January  13,  1891  (26  Stat.  L.,  716). 

CLAUSE  IN  ACT  PROVIDING  TOR  THE  PRINTING,  BINDING,  AND 
DISTRIBUTION  OF  PUBLIC  DOCUMENTS  CONSTITUTING  THE 
LAND-GRANT   COLLEGES  DEPOSITORIES. 

"All  land-grant  colleges  shall  be  constituted  as  depositories  for  public  docu- 
ments, subject  to  the  provisions  and  limitations  of  the  depository  laws." 
Approved,  March  1,  1907. 

ACT    OF     1887    ESTABLISHING    AGRICULTURAL    EXPERIMENT 

STATIONS. 

[Hatch  Act] 

AN  ACT  To  establish  agricultural  experiment  stations  in  connection  with  the  colleges 
established  in  the  several  States  under  the  provisions  of  an  act  approved  July  second, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  of  the  acts  supplementary  thereto. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United  States 
of  America  m  Congress  assembled,  That  in  order  to  aid  in  acquiring  and  dif- 
fusing among  the  people  of  the  United  States  useful  and  practical  iu formation 
on  subjects  connected  with  agriculture,  and  to  promote  scientific  investigation 
and  experiment  respecting  the  principles  and  applications  of  agricultural  science, 
there  shall  be  established  under  direction  of  the  college  or  colleges  or  agricul- 
tural department  of  colleges  in  each  State  or  Territory  established,  or  which 
may  hereafter  be  established,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  an  act  ap- 
proved July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  entitled  "An  act  donating 
public  lands  to  the  several  States  and  Territories  which  may  provide  colleges 
for  the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts,"  or  any  of  the  supplements 
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to  said  act,  a  department  to  be  known  and  designated  as  an  "  agricultural  experi- 
ment station":  Provided,  That  in  any  State  or  Territory  in  which  two  such 
colleges  have  been  or  may  be  so  established  the  appropriation  hereinafter  made 
to  such  State  or  Territory  shall  be  equally  divided  between  such  colleges,  unless 
the  legislature  of  such  State  or  Territory  shall  otherwise  direct. 

Sec  2.  That  it  shall  be  the  object  and  duty  of  said  experiment  stations  to 
conduct  original  researches  or  verify  experiments  on  the  physiology  of  plants 
and  animals;  the  diseases  to  which  they  are  severally  subject,  with  the  remedies 
of  the  same;  the  chemical  composition  of  useful  plants  at  their  different  stages 
of  growth ;  the  comparative  advantages  of  rotative  cropping  as  pursued  under 
the  varying  series  of  crops ;  the  capacity  of  new  plants  or  trees  for  acclimation ; 
the  analysis  of  soils  and  water;  the  chemical  composition  of  manures,  natural 
or  artificial,  with  experiments  designed  to  test  the  comparative  effects  on  crops 
of  different  kinds;  the  adaptation  and  value  of  grasses  and  forage  plants;  the 
composition  and  digestibility  of  the  different  kinds  of  food  for  domestic  animals ; 
the  scientific  and  economic  questions  involved  in  the  production  of  butter  and 
cheese:  and  such  other  researches  or  experiments  bearing  directly  on  the  agri- 
cultural industry  of  the  United  States  as  may  in  each  case  be  deemed  advisable, 
having  due  regard  to  the  varying  conditions  and  needs  of  the  respective  States 
or  Territories. 

Sec.  3.  That  in  order  to  secure,  as  far  as  practicable,  uniformity  of  methods 
and  results  in  the  work  of  said  stations,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  United  States 
Commissioner  [now  Secretary]  of  Agriculture  to  furnish  forms,  as  far  as  prac- 
ticable, for  the  tabulation  of  results  of  investigation  or  experiments ;  to  indi- 
cate from  time  to  time  such  lines  of  inquiry  as  to  him  shall  seem  most  important, 
and,  in  general,  to  furnish  such  advice  and  assistance  as  will  best  promote  the 
purpose  of  this  act.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  of  said  stations  annually,  on 
or  before  the  first  day  of  February,  to  make  to  the  governor  of  the  State  or  Ter- 
ritory in  which  it  is  located  a  full  and  detailed  report  of  its  operations,  includ- 
ing a  statement  of  receipts  and  expenditures,  a  copy  of  which  report  shall  be 
sent  to  each  of  said  stations,  to  the  said  Commissioner  [now  Secretary]  of 
Agriculture,  and  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  of  the  United  States. 

Sec.  4.  That  bulletins  or  reports  of  progress  shall  be  published  at  said  sta- 
tions at  least  once  in  three  months,  one  copy  of  which  shall  be  sent  to  each  news- 
paper in  the  States  or  Territories  in  which  they  are  respectively  located,  and  to 
such  individuals  actually  engaged  in  farming  as  may  request  the  same  and  as 
far  as  the  means  of  the  station  will  permit.  Such  bulletins  or  reports  and  the 
annual  reports  of  said  stations  shall  be  transmitted  in  the  mails  of  the  United 
States  free  of  charge  for  postage,  under  such  regulations  as  the  Postmaster 
General  may  from  time  to  time  prescribe. 

Sec  5.  That  for  the  purpose  of  paying  the  necessary  expenses  of  conducting 
investigations  and  experiments  and  printing  and  distributing  the  results  as 
hereinbefore  prescribed,  the  sum  of  fifteen  thousand  dollars  per  annum  is 
hereby  appropriated  to  each  State,  to  be  specially  provided  for  by  Congress  in 
the  appropriations  from  year  to  year,  and  to  each  Territory  entitled  under  the 
provisions  of  ser-tion  eight  of  this  act,  out  of  any  money  in  the  Treasury  proceed- 
ing from  the  sales  of  public*  lands,  to  be  paid  in  equal  quarterly  payments  on 
the  first  day  of  January,  April,  July,  and  October  in  each  year,  to  the  treasurer 
or  other  officer  duly  appointed  by  the  governing  boards  of  said  colleges  to  re- 
ceive the  same,  the  first  payment  to  be  made  on  the  first  day  of  October,  eight- 
een hundred  and  eighty-seven :  Provided,  however,  That  out  of  the  first  annual 
appropriation  so  received  by  any  station  an  amount  not  exceeding  one-fifth  may 
be  expended  in  the  erection,  enlargement,  or  repair  of  a  building  or  buildings 
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necessary  for  carrying  on  the  work  of  such  station ;  and  thereafter  an  amount 
not  exceeding  five  per  centum  of  such  annual  appropriation  may  be  so  expended. 

Sec.  6.  That  whenever  it  shall  appear  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  from 
the  annual  statement  of  receipts,  and  expenditures  of  any  of  said  stations  that  a 
portion  of  the  preceding  annual  appropriation  remains  unexpended,  such  amount 
shall  be  deducted  from  the  next  succeeding  annual  appropriation  to  such  station, 
in  order  that  the  amount  of  money  appropriated  to  any  station  shall  not  exceed 
the  amount  actually  and  necessarily  required  for  its  maintenance  and  support. 

Sec.  7.  That  nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  construed  to  impair  or  modify  the 
legal  relation  existing  between  any  of  the  said  colleges  and  the  government  of 
the  States  or  Territories  in  which  they  are  respectively  located. 
•  Sec  8.  That  in  States  having  colleges  entitled  under  this  section  to  the  bene- 
fits of  this  act  and  having  also  agricultural  experiment  stations  established  by 
law  separate  from  said  colleges,  such  States  shall  be  authorized  to  apply  such 
benefits  to  experiments  at  stations  so  established  by  such  States;  and  in  case 
any  State  shall  have  established,  under  the  provisions  of  said  act  of  July 
second  aforesaid,  an  agricultural  department  or  experimental  station  in  con- 
nection with  any  university,  college,  or  institution  not  distinctly  an  agricultural 
college  or  school,  and  such  State  shall  have  established  or  shall  hereafter 
establish  a  separate  agricultural  college  or  school,  which  shall  have  connected 
therewith  an  experimental  farm  or  station,  the  legislature  of  such  State  may 
apply  in  whole  or  in  part  the  appropriation  by  this  act  made  to  such  separate 
agricultural  college  or  school,  and  no  legislature  shall  by  contract,  express  or 
implied,  disable  itself  from  so  doing. 

Sec  9.  That  the  grants  of  moneys  authorized  by  this  act  are  made  subject  to 
the  legislative  assent  of  the  several  States  and  Territories  to  the  purposes  of 
said  grants :  Provided,  That  payment  of  such  installments  of  the  appropriation 
herein  made  as  shall  become  due  to  any  State  before  the  adjournment  of  the 
regular  session  of  its  legislature  meeting  next  after  the  passage  of  this  act 
shall  be  made  upon  the  assent  of  the  governor  thereof  duly  certified  to  the 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury. 

Sec  10.  Nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  held  or  construed  as  binding  the  United 
States  to  contini*9  any  payments  from  the  Treasury  to  any  or  all  the  States  or 
institutions  mentioned  in  this  act,  but  Congress  may  at  any  time  amend,  sus- 
pend, or  repeal  any  or  all  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

Approved,  March  2,  1887  (24  Stat.  L.,  440). 

ACT   OF    1888  AMENDING   (HATCH)   ACT   OF    1887. 

AN  ACT  To  amend  an  act  entitled  "An  act  to  establish  agricultural  stations  in  connec- 
tion with  the  colleges  established  in  the  several  States  under  the  provisions  of  an  act 
approved  July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  the  acts  supplementary 
thereto." 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United  States 
of  America  in  Congress  assembled,  That  the  grant  of  money  authorized  by  the 
act  of  Congress  entitled  "An  act  to  establish  agricultural  experiment  stations 
in  connection  with  the  colleges  established  in  the  several  States  under  the  pro- 
visions of  an  act  approved  July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  of 
acts  supplementary  thereto,"  are  subject  as  therein  provided  to  the  legislative 
assent  of  the  States  or  Territories  to  be  affected  thereby;  but  as  to  such 
installments  of  the  appropriations  as  may  be  now  due  or  may  hereafter  become 
due,  when  the  legislature  may  not  be  in  session,  the  governor  of  said  State  or 
Territory  may  make  the  assent  therein  provided,  and  upon  a  duly  certified  copy 
thereof  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  he  shall  cause  the  same  to  be  paid  in 
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the  manner  provided  in  the  act  of  which  this  is  amendatory,  until  the  termina- 
tion of  the  next  regular  session  of  the  legislature  of  such  State  or  Territory. 
Approved,  June  7,  18SS  (25  Stat.  L„  17(5). 

PROVISO  IN  ACT  MAKING  APPROPRIATIONS  FOR  THE  UNITED 
STATES  DEPARTMENT  OF  AGRICULTURE  FOR  THE  FISCAL  YEAR 
ENDING  JUNE  30,  1890,  FURTHER  DEFINING  WORK  OF  STATIONS 
ESTABLISHED  UNDER  ACT  OF  MARCH  2,   1887  (HATCH  ACT). 

t     That,  as  far  as  practicable,  all  such  stations  shall  devote  a  portion  of  their 
work  to  the  examination  and  classification  of  soils  of  their  respective  States 
and  Territories,  with  a  view  to  securing  more  extended  knowledge  and  better 
development  of  their  agricultural  capabilities. 
Approved,  March  2,  1889  (2r>  Stat.  L.,  S41). 

ACT  OF  1906  FOR  THE  FURTHER  ENDOWMENT  OF  AGRICULTURAL 
EXPERIMENT   STATIONS. 

[Adams  Act.] 

AN  ACT  To  provide  for  an  increased  annual   appropriation   for  agricultural  experiment 
stations  and  regulating  the  expenditure  thereof. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  Rouse  of  Representatives  of  the  United  States 
of  America  in  Congress  assembled,  That  there  shall  be,  and  hereby  is,  annua  Un- 
appropriated, out  of  any  money  in  the  Treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated,  to 
be  paid  as  hereinafter  provided,  to  each  State  and  Territory,  for  the  more  com- 
plete eudowment  and  maintenance  of  agricultural  experiment  stations  now 
established  or  which  may  hereafter  be  established  in  accordance  with  the  act 
of  Congress  approved  March  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-seven,  the 
sum  of  five  thousand  dollars  in  addition  to  the  sum  named  in  said  act  for  the 
year  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred  and  six.  and  an  annual  increase 
of  the  amount  of  such  appropriation  thereafter  for  five  years  by  an  additional 
sum  of  two  thousand  dollars  over  the  preceding  year,  and  the  annual  amount 
to  be  paid  thereafter  to  each  State  or  Territory  shall  be  thirty  thousand  dol- 
lars, to  be  applied  only  to  paying  the  necessary  expenses  of  conducting  original 
researches  or  experiments  bearing  directly  on  the  agricultural  industry  of  the 
United  States,  having  due  regard  to  the  varying  conditions  and  needs  of  the 
respective  States  or  Territories. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  sums  hereby  appropriated  to  the  States  and  Territories  for 
the  further  endowment  and  support  of  agricultural  experiment  stations  shall  be 
annually  paid  in  equal  quarterly  payments  on  the  first  day  of  January,  April, 
July,  and  October  of  each  year  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  upon  the  war- 
rant of  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  out  of  the  Treasury  of  the  United  States, 
to  the  treasurer  or  other  officer  duly  appointed  by  the  governing  boards  of  said 
experiment  stations  to  receive  the  same,  and  such  officers  shall  be  required  to 
report  to  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  September 
of  each  year  a  detailed  statement  of  the  amount  so  received  and  of  its  disburse- 
ment, on  schedules  prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture.  The  grants  of 
money  authorized  by  thifl  act  are  made  subject  to  legislative  assent  of  the  sev- 
eral States  and  Territories  to  the  purpose  of  said  grants:  Provided,  That 
payment  of  such  installments  of  the  appropriation  herein  made  as  shall  become 
due  to  any  State  or  Territory  before  the  adjournment  of  the  regular  session  of 
legislature  meeting  next  after  the  passage  of  this  act  shall  be  made  upon  the 
assent  of  the  governor  thereof,  duly  certified  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury. 
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Sec  3.  That  if  any  portion  of  the  moneys  received  by  the  designated  officer 
of  any  State  or  Territory  for  the  further  and  more  complete  endowment,  sup- 
port, and  maintenance  of  agricultural  experiment  stations  as  provided  in  this 
act  shall  by  any  action  or  contingency  be  diminished  or  lost  or  be  misapplied,  it 
shall  be  replaced  by  said  State  or  Territory  to  which  it  belongs,  and  until  so 
replaced  no  subsequent  appropriation  shall  be  apportioned  or  paid  to  such  State 
or  Territory ;  and  no  portion  of  said  moneys  exceeding  five  per  centum  of  each 
annual  appropriation  shall  be  applied,  directly  or  indirectly,  under  any  pretense 
whatever,  to  the  purchase,  erection,  preservation,  or  repair  of  any  building  or 
buildings,  or  to  the  purchase  or  rental  of  land.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  of- 
said  stations  annually,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  February,  to  make  to  the 
governor  of  the  State  or  Territory  in  which  it  is  located  a  full  and  detailed 
report  of  its  operations,  including  a  statement  of  receipts  and  expenditures,  a 
copy  of  which  report  shall  be  sent  to  each  of  said  stations,  to  the  Secretary  of 
Agriculture,  and  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  of  the  United  States. 

Sec.  4.  That  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  July  in  each  year  after  the  passage 
of  this  act  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  shall  ascertain  and  certify  to  the  Secre- 
tary of  the  Treasury  as  to  each  State  and  Territory  whether  it  is  complying 
with  the  provisions  of  this  act  and  is  entitled  to  receive  its  share  of  the  annual 
appropriation  for  agricultural  experiment  stations  under  this  act  and  the 
amount  which  thereupon  each  is  entitled,  respectively,  to  receive.  If  the  Secre- 
tary of  Agriculture  shall  withhold  a  certificate  from  any  State  or  Territory  of 
its  appropriation,  the  facts  and  reasons  therefor  shall  be  reported  to  the  Presi- 
dent, and  the  amount  involved  shall  be  kept  separate  in  the  Treasury  until  the 
close  of  the  next  Congress,  in  order  that  the  State  or  Territory  may,  if  it  shall 
so  desire,  appeal  to  Congress  from  the  determination  of  the  Secretary  of  Agri- 
culture. If  the  next  Congress  shall  not  direct  such  sum  to  be  paid,  it  shall  be 
covered  into  the  Treasury ;  and  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  is  hereby  charged 
with  the  proper  administration  of  this  law. 

Sec  5.  That  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  shall  make  an  annual  report  to  Con- 
gress on  the  receipts  and  expenditures  and  work  of  the  agricultural  experiment 
stations  in  all  of  the  States  and  Territories,  and  also  whether  the  appropriation 
of  any  State  or  Territory  has  been  withheld;  and  if  so,  the  reason  therefor. 

Sec  6.  That  Congress  may  at  any  time  amend,  suspend,  or  repeal  any  or  all 
of  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

Approved,  March  16,  1900  (34  Stat.  L.,  63). 

CLAUSE  IN  ACT  MAKING  APPROPRIATIONS  FOR  THE  UNITED 
STATES  DEPARTMENT  OF  AGRICULTURE  FOR  THE  FISCAL  YEAR 
ENDING  JUNE  30,  1907,  INTERPRETING  THE  ACT  OF  MARCH  16, 
1906   (ADAMS  ACT). 

The  act  of  Congress  approved  March  sixteenth,  nineteen  hundred  and  six, 
entitled  "An  act  to  provide  for  an  increased  annual  appropriation  for  agricul- 
tural experiment  stations  and  regulating  the  expenditure  thereof,"  shall  be 
construed  to  appropriate  for  each  station  the  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars  for 
the  fiscal  year  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred  and  six,  the  sum  of  seven 
thousand  dollars  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred  and 
seven,  the  sum  of  nine  thousand  dollars  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  thirtieth, 
nineteen  hundred  and  eight,  the  sum  of  eleven  thousand  dollars  for  the  fiscal 
year  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred  and  nine,  the  sum  of  thirteen 
thousand  dollars  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred  and 
ten,  and  the  sum  of  fifteen  thousand  dollars  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June 
thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred  and  eleven.  The  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars 
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appropriated  for  the  fiscal  year  nineteen  hundred  and  six  shall  be  paid  on  or 
before  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred  and  six.  and  the  amounts  appropriated 
for  the  subsequent  years  shall  be  paid  as  provided  in  the  said  act  to  each  State 
and  Territory  for  the  more  complete  endowment  and  maintenance  of  agricul- 
tural experiment  stations  now  established  or  which  may  hereafter  be  estab- 
lished in  accordance  with  the  act  of  Congress  approved  March  second,  eighteen 
hundred  and  eighty-seven. 
Approved,  June  30,  1906  (34  Stat.  L.,  669,  696). 

SAXE   OF   CARD   INDEX    OF   EXPERIMENT   STATION   LITERATURE. 

[Extract   from   act    niakiuj;   appropriations   for   the   United    States    Department   of   Agri- 
culture for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30,  1909.] 

And  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  hereafter  may  furnish  to  such  institutions 
or  individuals  as  may  care  to  buy  tliem  copies  of  the  card  index  of  agricultural 
literature  prepared  by  the  Office  of  Experiment  Stations,  and  charge  for  the 
same  a  price  covering  the  additional  expense  involved  in  the  preparation  of 
these  copies,  the  money  received  from  such  sales  to  be  deposited  in  the  Treasury 
of  the  United  States  as  miscellaneous  receipts.     *     *     * 

Approved,  May  23,  1908  (35  Stat.  L.,  266). 

ANNUAL  APPROPRIATIONS  FOR  THE  EXPERIMENT  STATIONS  AND 
THE  RELATIONS  OF  THE  OFFICE  OF  EXPERIMENT  STATIONS 
THERETO. 

[Extract   from   act   making  appropriations   for  the   United   States   Department   of  Agri- 
culture for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30,  1913.] 

To  carry  into  effect  the  provisions  of  an  act  approved  March  second,  eighteen 
hundred  and  eighty-seven,  entitled  "An  act  to  establish  agricultural  experiment 
stations  in  connection  with  the  colleges  established  in  the  several  States  under 
the  provisions  of  an  act  approved  July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two, 
and  of  the  acts  supplementary  thereto,"  the  sums  apportioned  to  the  several 
States  and  Territories  to  be  paid  quarterly  in  advance,  seven  hundred  and 
twenty  thousand  dollars. 

To  carry  into  effect  the  provisions  of  an  act  approved  March  sixteenth,  nine- 
teen hundred  and  six,  entitled  "An  act  to  provide  for  an  increased  annual  appro- 
priation for  agricultural  experiment  stations  and  regulating  the  expenditure 
thereof,"  the  sums  apportioned  to  the  several  States  and  Territories  to  be  paid 
quarterly  in  advance,  seven  hundred  and  twenty  thousand  dollars:  Provided, 
That  not  to  exceed  fifteen  thousand  dollars  shall  be  paid  to  each  State  and  Terri- 
tory under  this  act. 

To  enable  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  to  enforce  the  provisions  of  the  above 
acts  relative  to  their  administration  *  *  *,  thirty-eight  thousand  four  hun- 
dred dollars;  and  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  shall  prescribe  the  form  of  the 
annual  financial  statement  required  under  the  above  acts,  ascertain  whether  the 
expenditures  are  in  accordance  with  their  provisions,  and  make  report  thereon 
to  Congress. 

To  enable  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  to  establish  and  maintain  agricultural 
experiment  stations  in  Alaska,  Hawaii,  Porto  Rico,  and  the  island  of  Guam, 
including  the  erection  of  buildings,  the  preparation,  illustration,  and  distribu- 
tion of  reports  and  bulletins,  and  all  other  necessary  expenses,  one  hundred  and 
five  thousand  dollars,  as  follows:  Alaska,  thirty  thousand  dollars;  Hawaii, 
thirty  thousand  dollars;  Porto  Rico,  thirty  thousand  dollars;  and  Guam,  fifteen 
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thousand  dollars;  and  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  is  authorized  to  sell  such 
products  as  are  obtained  on  the  land  belonging  to  the  agricultural  experiment 
stations  in  Alaska,  Hawaii,  Porto  Rico,  and  the  island  of  Guam  and  to  apply 
the  money  received  from  the  sale  of  such  products  to  the  maintenance  of  said 
stations,  and  this  fund  shall  be  available  until  used. 

AGRICULTURAL   EDUCATION   WORK   OF   THE   OFFICE  OF   EXPERI- 
MENT  STATIONS. 

[Extract  from  act  making  appropriations  for  the  United  States  Department  of  Agricul- 
ture for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30,  1913.] 

To  enable  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  to  investigate  and  report  upon  the 
organization  and  progress  of  farmers'  institutes  and  agricultural  schools  in  the 
several  States  and  Territories,  and  upon  similar  organizations  in  foreign 
countries,  with  special  suggestions  of  plans  and  methods  for  making  such 
organizations  more  effective  for  the  dissemination  of  the  results  of  the  work  of 
the  Department  of  Agriculture  and  the  agricultural  experiment  stations  and  of 
improved  methods  of  agricultural  practice  *  *  .*,  fifteen  thousand  seven 
hundred  and  sixty  dollars. 

PRINTING    OF    REPORT    ON    WORK    AND    EXPENDITURES    OF    THE 
EXPERIMENT   STATIONS. 

[Joint  resolution  of  Congress,  Apr.  27,  1904.] 

Resolved  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United  States  of 
America  in  Congress  assembled,  That  there  be  printed  eight  thousand  copies  of 
the  Report  of  the  Director  of  the  Office  of  Experiment  Stations,  prepared  under 
the  supervision  of  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  on  the  work  and  expenditures  of 
that  office  and  of  the  agricultural  experiment  stations  established  in  the  several 
States  and  Territories  under  the  act  of  Congress  of  March  second,  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  eighty-seven,  for  nineteen  hundred  and  three,  of  which  one  thousand 
copies  shall  be  for  the  use  of  the  Senate,  two  thousand  copies  for  the  use  of  the 
House  of  Representatives,  and  five  thousand  copies  for  the  use  of  the  Depart1 
ment  of  Agriculture ;  and  that  annually  hereafter  a  similar  report  shall  be  pre- 
pared and  printed,  the  edition  to  be  the  same  as  for  the  report  herein  provided. 

COOPERATION  OF  BUREAUS  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  DEPART- 
MENT OF  AGRICULTURE  WITH  THE  STATE  EXPERIMENT  STA- 
TIONS. 

The  act  making  appropriations  for  the  United  States  Department 
of  Agriculture  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30,  1913,  provides  for 
cooperation  between  the  Bureau  of  Animal  Industry  and  the  State 
agricultural  experiment  stations  in  experiments  in  animal  feeding  and 
breeding  and  between  the  Bureau  of  Plant  Industry  and  the  stations 
in  testing  and  breeding  fiber  plants,  including  flax  straw  for  paper 
making  (at  the  North  Dakota  Agricultural  College),  and  in  testing 
rare  and  valuable  seeds,  bulbs,  trees,  shrubs,  vines,  cuttings,  and 
plants  from  foreign  countries. 

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REGULATIONS   OF   THE  POST   OFFICE   DEPARTMENT   CONCERNING 
AGRICULTURAL    EXPERIMENT    STATION    PUBLICATIONS. 

Sections  515,  516,  and  517  of  the  Postal  Laws  and  Regulations 
(1902)  of  the  United  States  relating  to  the  free  transmission  of  re- 
ports and  bulletins  of  agricultural  colleges  and  experiment  stations 
read  as  follows: 

Sec.  515.  One  copy  of  each  of  the  annual  reports  required  by  law  to  be  made 
to  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior  and  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  by  such  col- 
leges as  are  or  may  hereafter  be  established  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture  and 
the  mechanic  arts  in  the  several  States  and  Territories  under  the  provisions  of 
the  act  of  July  2,  1S62,  entitled  "An  act  donating  public  lands  to  the  several 
States  and  Territories  which  may  provide  colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture 
and  the  mechanic  arts,"  and  the  acts  amendatory  thereof  *  *  *  shall  be 
transmitted  by  mail  free,  by  each,  to  all  the  other  colleges  which  may  be  en- 
dowed under  the  provisions  of  this  act  (of  July  2,  1S62),  and  also  one  copy  to 
the  Secretary  of  the  Interior  and  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture. 

2.  Postmasters  at  offices  where  colleges  are  established  under  the  provisions 
of  the  act  of  July  2,  1862,  will  receive  from  the  officers  thereof  the  reports  re- 
ferred to  addressed,  one  copy  each,  to  such  other  colleges  and  to  the  Secretary 
of  the  Interior  and  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  and  affix  to  each  a  penalty 
label  or  official  envelope  of  the  post  office,  and  forward  the  same  free. 

Sec.  516.  Bulletins  or  reports  of  progress,  one  copy  to  each  newspaper  in  the 
State  or  Territory  in  which  the  colleges  hereafter  referred  to  are  located,  and 
to  such  individuals  actually  engaged  in  farming  as  may  request  the  same,  and 
the  annual  reports  required  by  law  to  be  published  by  the  agricultural  experi- 
ment stations  established  under  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  March  2,  1887,  en- 
titled "An  act  to  establish  agricultural  experiment  stations  in  connection  with 
the  colleges  established  in  the  various  States  and  Territories  under  the  provi- 
sions of  an  act  approved  July  2,  1862,  and  the  acts  supplementary  thereto,"  for 
the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts  (of  said  stations)  shall  be 
transmitted  in  the  mails  of  the  United  States  free  of  charge  for  postage,  under 
such  regulations  as  the  Postmaster  General  may  from  time  to  time  prescribe. 

Sec.  517.  Agricultural  experiment  stations  which  claim  the  privilege  of  trans- 
mitting free  through  the  mails,  under  the  provisions  of  the  preceding  section, 
bulletins,  reports  of  progress,  or  annual  reports,  must  make  application  to  the 
Postmaster  General,  stating  the  date  of  the  establishment  of  such  station,  its 
proper  name  or  designation,  its  official  organization,  and  the  names  of  its 
officers,  the  name  of  the  university,  college,  school,  or  institution  to  which  it  is 
attached,  if  any,  the  legislation  of  the  State  or  Territory  providing  for  its  estab- 
lishment, and  any  other  granting  it  the  benefits  of  the  provision  made  by  Con- 
gress as  referred  to  in  the  preceding  section,  accompanied  by  a  copy  of  the  act 
or  acts,  and  whether  any  other  such  station  in  the  same  State  or  Territory  is 
considered,  or  claims  to  be,  also  entitled  to  the  privilege;  ;iml  also  the  place 
where  such  station  is  located  and  the  name  of  the  post  office  where  the  bulletins 
and  reports  will  be  mailed.  The  application  must  be  signed  by  the  officer  in 
charge  of  the  station. 

2.  if  such  application  is  allowed  by  the  Postmaster  Genera]  the  postmaster  at 
the  proper  office  will  be  instructed  to  admit  such  bulletins  and  reports  to  the 
mails  free  of  postage,  and  the  officer  in  charge  of  the  station  will  be  notified 
thereof. 

3.  Only  such  bulletins  or  reports  as  shall  have  been  issued  after  an  experi- 
ment station  became  entitled  to  the  privileges  of  the  preceding  section  can  be 

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transmitted  free ;  and  such  bulletins  or  reports  may  be  inclosed  in  envelopes  or 
wrappers,  sealed  or  unsealed.  On  the  exterior  of  every  envelope,  wrapper,  or 
package  must  be  written  or  printed  the  name  of  the  station  and  place  of  its  loca- 
tion, the  designation  of  the  bulletin  or  report  inclosed,  and  the  word  "  Free  " 
over  the  signature  or  facsimile  thereof  of  the  officer  in  charge  of  the  station, 
to  be  affixed  by  himself,  or  by  some  one  duly  authorized  by  him.  There  may 
also  be  written  or  printed  upon  the  envelope  or  wrapper  a  request  that  the 
postmaster  at  the  office  of  delivery  will  notify  the  mailing  station  of  the  change 
of  address  of  the  addressee,  or  other  reason  for  inability  to  deliver  the  same, 
and  upon  a  bulk  package  a  request  to  the  postmaster  to  open  and  distribute  the 
*  franked  "  matter  therein,  in  accordance  with  the  addresses  thereon. 

4.  Bulletins  published  by  the  United  States  Department  of  Agriculture,  and 
entitled  to  be  mailed  free  under  the  penalty  envelope  of  that  department,  may 
also  be  adopted  and  mailed  by  agricultural  experiment  stations,  with  such  of 
their  own  publications  as  are  entitled  to  free  transmission  in  the  mails,  under 
the  same  regulations ;  and  any  bulletins  or  reports  mailable  free  by  any  agri- 
cultural, experiment  station  under  these  regulations  may  be  so  mailed  by  any 
other  station  entitled  to  such  privilege. 

5.  If  annual  reports  of  an  agricultural  experiment  station  are  printed  by 
State  authority,  and  consist  in  part  of  matter  relating  to  the  land-grant  college 
to  which  such  station  is  attached,  then  said  report  entire  may  be  mailed  free  by 
the  director  of  the  station,  provided,  in  his  judgment,  the  whole  consists  of  use- 
ful information  of  an  agricultural  character.  But  the  reports  of  State  agricul- 
tural departments  or  boards  can  not  be  adopted  by  agricultural  experiment 
stations  in  order  to  secure  free  circulation  of  such  State  reports. 

6.  The  bulletins  and  reports  of  progress  issued  by  agricultural  experiment 
stations  can  only  be  sent  free  to  the  newspapers  and  persons  stated  in  the 
preceding  section.     The  annual  reports  may  be  sent  free  to  any  address. 

A  part  of  section  544,  relating  to  free  transmission  of  annual 
reports  to  certain  foreign  countries,  reads  as  follows : 

The  annual  reports  of  agricultural  experiment  stations  may  be  sent  free  to 
Canada,  Cuba,  and  Mexico. 

A  part  of  section  672,  relating  to  the  return  and  disposal*  of  un- 
claimed official  matter,  as  amended  April  26,  1912,  reads  as  follows: 

Unclaimed  official  mail  sent  under  penalty  envelope  or  label  or  the  frank  of  a 
Member  of  Congress,  and  unclaimed  reports  and  bulletins  sent  out  from  State 
agricultural  colleges  and  from  agricultural  experiment  stations  will  be  returned 
to  the  office  of  mailing  if  it  is  known.  If  the  office  of  origin  can  not  be  ascer- 
tained, such  mail  will  be  returned  to  the  post  office  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

An  order  of  the  Postmaster  General  provides— 

Any  article  entitled  to  transmission  free  of  postage  in  the  domestic  mails  of 
the  United  States,  either  in  a  "  penalty  "  envelope  or  under  a  duly  authorized 
"  frank,"  shall  be  entitled  likewise  to  transmission  in  the  mails  free  of  postage 
between  places  in  any  possession  of  the  United  States  from  one  to  another  of 
such  possessions,  from  the  United  States  to  such  possessions,  and  from  such 
possessions  to  the  United  States. 

Among  rulings  on  matters  of  detail  the  following  are  the  most 
important : 

In  sending  out  bulletins  from  an  agricultural  experiment  station  it  is  per- 
missible to  inclose  postal  cards  to  enable  correspondents  of  the  station  to 
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acknowledge  the  receipt  of  its  publications  and  to  request  their  continuous 
transmission. 

"  Copies  of  the  reports  or  bulletins  of  the  agricultural  experiment  stations, 
which  are  purchased,  paid,  or  subscribed  for,  or  otherwise  disposed  of  for  gain, 
when  sent  in  the  mails,  are  not  entitled  to  free  carriage  under  the  '  frank '  of 
the  director  of  station." 

Station  bulletins  and  reports,  consisting  of  typewritten  matter  duplicated  on 
a  mimeograph  or  other  duplicating  machine,  "retain  their  character  as  free 
matter  when  properly  franked  by  the  director  of  the  station.'' 

Cards  upon  which  are  printed  bulletins  issued  by  agricultural  experiment  sta- 
tions established  under  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  March  2,  1887,  may  be  sent 
openly  in  the  mails,  free  of  postage,  provided  the  address  side  of  such  cards 
bears  the  indicia  prescribed  in  paragraph  3,  section  517,  Postal  Laws  and  Regu- 
lations, for  envelopes  used  by  the  experiment  stations  referred  to  in  mailing 
copies  of  their  bulletins  and  reports. 

Reports  of  the  State  boards  of  agriculture  or  other  State  boards,  commis- 
sioners, or  officers,  even  though  they  contain  station  bulletins  and  reports,  can 
not  be  sent  free  through  toe  mails  under  the  frank  of  the  director  of  the  station. 
The  catalogue  of  the  college  of  which  the  station  is  a  department  can  not  be 
sent  free  through  the  mails  under  the  frank  of  the  director  of  the  station, 
whether  said  catalogue  is  published  separately  or  is  bound  together  with  a 
station  publication. 

RULINGS    OF    THE    TREASURY    DEPARTMENT    AFFECTING    AGRI- 
CULTURAL  EXPERIMENT   STATIONS. 

From  copies  of  letters  addressed  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury 
and  others  by  the  First  Comptroller  of  the  Treasury,  relating  to  the 
construction  of  the  acts  of  Congress  of  March  2,  1887  (Hatch  Act), 
and  March  16,  1906  (Adams  Act),  and  acts  supplementary  thereto, 
the  following  digest  has  been  prepared.  The  dates  of  the  decisions 
by  the  comptroller  are  given : 

Section  3,  Hatch  Act — January  30,  1888. 

The  annual  financial  statement  of  the  stations,  with  vouchers,  should  not  be 
sent  to  the  Treasury  Department,  but  a  copy  simply  of  the  report  that  is  made 
to  the  governor  is  to  be  sent  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury. 

Section  3,  Hatch  Act — January  31,  1888. 

(1)  The  Treasury  Department  will  not  require  officers  of  experiment  stations 
to  do  or  perform  anything  not  specifically  required  by  said  bill. 

(2)  The  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  not  required  to  take  a  bond  of  the 
officers  of  said  stations  for  the  money  paid  over  under  the  provisions  of  said  act. 

(3)  No  reports  will  be  required  from  the  stations  directly  to  the  Secretary 
of  the  Treasury;  but  the  governor  of  the  State  must  send  to  the  Secretary  of 
the  Treasury  a  copy  of  the  report  made  to  him  by  the  colleges  or  stations. 

Section  4,  Hatch  Act — December  16,  1895. 

The  Solicitor  of  the  Treasury  writes :  "  I  am  of  the  opinion  that  there  is  no 
authority  for  an  agricultural  experiment  station  to  sell  its  bulletins  outside  of 
the  State  or  Territory.  Congress  appropriates  for  the  publication  and  free 
distribution  of  the  bulletins,  and  neither  expressly  nor  by  necessary  implication 
authorizes  their  sale," 
[Cir.  Ill] 


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Section  6,  Hatch  Act — August  2,  1888. 

The  fiscal  year  commences  on  the  1st  day  of  July,  corresponding  with  the 
fiscal  year  of  the  Government. 

An  agricultural  station  entitled  to  the  benefits  of  said  appropriations  made 
by  Congress  can  anticipate  the  payment  to  be  made  July  1,  and  make  contracts 
of  purchases  prior  to  that  time,  if  it  shall  be  necessary  to  carry  on  the  work 
of  the  station.  Of  course,  no  portion  of  said  appropriations  paid  in  quarterly 
installments  can  be  drawn  from  the  Treasury  unless  needed  for  the  purposes 
indicated  in  the  act;  and  so  much  of  what  is  so  drawn  as  may  not  have  been 
expended  within  the  year  must  be  accounted  for  as  part  of  the  appropriation 
for  the  following  year. 

Section  8,  Hatch  Act — January  30,  1888. 

The  State  of  New  York  ought  to  designate  whether  to  the  college  or  to  the 
station  or  to  both  it  desires  the  appropriation  to  be  applied.  The  eighth  section 
of  the  act  seems  to  authorize  the  State  to  apply  such  benefits  to  experimental 
stations  it  may  have  established  as  it  desires. 

Where  there  are  no  experimental  stations  connected  with  the  colleges,  the 
legislatures  of  such  States  must  connect  the  agricultural  experiment  station 
with  the  colleges  already  established  under  the  act  of  July  2,  1862;  there  is  no 
authority  in  the  act  authorizing  the  establishment  of  agricultural  experiment 
stations  independent  of  said  colleges. 

The  act  contemplates  that  where  stations  have  already  been  established  dis- 
connected from  the  colleges  the  legislatures  of  such  States  may  make  such  pro- 
visions in  regard  thereto  as  they  may  deem  proper;  but  it  does  not  authorize 
the  establishment  of  stations  except  in  connection  with  the  colleges  that  were 
at  that  time  or  might  hereafter  be  established  under  the  act  of  July  2,  1862. 

Section  8,  Hatch  Act — February  14,  1888. 

Where  there  is  an  agricultural  college  or  station  which  may  have  been  estab- 
lished by  State  authority  and  is  maintained  by  the  State,  the  eighth  section  of 
the  above  act  would  authorize  the  State  to  designate  the  station  to  which  it« 
desired  the  appropriation  to  be  applied,  whether  to  one  or  more,  or  all,  and  the 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury  should  make  the  payment  under  the  appropriation 
to  whichever  one  the  State  might  desire. 

Sections  1  and  8,  Hatch  Act — February  15,  1888. 

(1)  When  an  agricultural  college  or  station  has  been  established  under  the 
act  of  July  2,  1862,  each  college  is  entitled  to  the  benefits  of  the  provisions  of 
said  act  (i.  e.,  of  Mar.  2,  1887). 

(2)  In  a  State  where  an  agricultural  college  has  been  established  under  the 
act  of  July  2,  1862,  and  agricultural  stations  have  also  been  established,  either 
under  the  act  of  July  2,  1862,  or  by  State  authority,  before  March  2,  1887,  the 
legislature  of  such  State  shall  determine  which  one  of  said  institutions,  or  how 
many  of  them,  shall  receive  the  benefits  of  the  act  of  March  2,  1887. 

(3)  If  the  legislature  of  any  State  in  which  an  agricultural  college  has  been 
established  under  the  act  of  July  2,  1862,  desires  to  establish  an  agricultural 
station  which  shall  be  entitled  to  the  benefits  of  said  act,  it  must  establish  such 
station  in  connection  with  said  college. 

Sections  1  and  8,  Hatch  Act — December  7,  1888. 

It  is  within  the  power  of  the  legislature  of  any  State  that  has  accepted  the 
provisions  of  said  act  of  March  2,  1887,  to  dispose  of  the  amount  appropriated 
[Cir.  ill] 


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by  Congress  for  said  station  to  each  one  or  all  of  the  agricultural  colleges  or 
stations  which  may  have  been  established  in  said  State  by  virtue  of  either  the 
provisions  of  the  act  of  July  2,  1862,  or  the  provisions  of  said  eighth  section 
of  the  act  of  March  2,  1SS7. 

The  whole  responsibility  rests  upon  the  State  legislature  as  to  how  the  fund 
appropriated  by  Congress  sball  be  distributed  among  these  various  institutions 
of  the  State,  provided  there  is  one  or  more  agricultural  colleges  with  which  an 
agricultural  station  is  connected  or  one  or  more  agricultural  stations. 

UNEXPENDED     BALANCES     OF     APPROPRIATIONS,     HATCH     AND 
ADAMS    ACTS— AUGUST    11,    1911,    AND    DECEMBER    27,    1911. 

Section  3  of  the  so-called  Adams  Act  of  March  16,  1906  (34  Stat.  63),  which 
provides  for  an  increased  annual  appropriation  for  agricultural  experiment 
stations,  requires  that  such  part  of  the  money  appropriated  under  the  provi- 
sions of  said  act  as  may  be  diminished  or  lost  or  misapplied  after  being 
received  by  the  officer  of  the  State  or  Territory  designated  to  receive  sanie 
must  "  be  replaced  by  said  State  or  Territory  to  which  it  belongs,  and  until 
so  replaced  no  subsequent  appropriation  shall  be  apportioned  or  paid  to  such 
State  or  Territory" ;  and  this  requirement  is  an  absolute  prohibition  upon 
the  apportionment  until  such  replacement  is  actually  made,  a  mere  with- 
holding from  the  subsequent  appropriation  of  an  amount  equal  to  that  dimin- 
ished, lost,  or  misapplied  not  being  a  compliance  with  said  statute.  (18  Comp. 
Dec.,  120.) 

Such  funds  may  be  replaced  by  expending  the  amount  involved 
for  the  purposes  for  which  the  funds  were  originally  appropriated, 
to  the  satisfaction  of  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture.  There  is  "  no 
limitation  on  time  within  which  the  replacement  shall  be  made," 
but  "  no  apportionment  whatever  can  be  made  until  the  misapplied 
moneys  are  replaced.'' 

The  provision  in  the  Hatch  Act  of  March  2,  1887  (24  Stat..  440),  requiring 
the  deduction  of  unexpended  apportionments  of  appropriations  applies  also 
to  appropriations  under  the  Adams  Act  of  March  16,  1906  (34  Stat,  63).  (18 
Comp.  Dec.,  485.) 

Such  unexpended  balances  must  be  accounted  for  as  a  part  of  the 
appropriation  for  the  next  succeeding  year;  in  short,  each  station 
must  account  every  year  for  the  specific  sum  (fifteen  thousand  dollars) 
provided  by  Congress,  although  the  amount  actually  paid  to  the 
-tat ion  in  any  one  year  may  be  less  than  fifteen  thousand  dollars 
on  account  of  the  deduction  of  an  unexpended  balance  for  the  pre- 
ceding fiscal  year. 

RULINGS  OF  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  AGRICULTURE  ON  THE 
WORK  AND  EXPENDITURES  OF  AGRICULTURAL  EXPERIMENT 
STATIONS. 

In  connection  with  examinations  of  the  work  and  expenditures  of 
the  agricultural  experiment  stations  established  in  accordance  with 
the  act  of  Congress  of  March  2,  1887,  and  further  endowed  under  act 
of  Congress  of  March  16,  1906,  under  authority  given  to  the  Secretary 

[Cir.  1 11  j 


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of  Agriculture  by  Congress,  questions  have  arisen  which  have  seemed 
to  make  it  advisable  to  formulate  the  views  of  this  department  on 
certain  matters  affecting  the  management  of  the  stations  under  those 
acts.  The  rulings  which  have  been  made  from  time  to  time  on  points 
which  seemed  to  require  special  attention  are  as  follows : 

EXPENDITURES  FOB  PERMANENT   SUBSTATIONS. 

This  department  holds  that  the  expenditure  of  funds  appropriated  in  accord- 
ance with  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  Congress  of  March  2,  1887,  for  the  main- 
tenance of  permanent  substations  is  contrary  to  the  spirit  and  intent  of  said 
act.  The  act  provides  for  an  experiment  station  in  each  State  and  Territory, 
which,  except  in  cases  specified  in  the  act,  is  to  be  a  department  of  the  college 
established  under  the  act  of  Congress  of  July  2,  1862.  The  objects  of  the  sta- 
tions, as  defined  in  the  first-mentioned  act,  are  evidently  of  such  a  character  as 
to  necessitate  the  services  of  scientific  and  expert  workers.  Most  of  the  lines 
of  investigation  named  in  the  act  are  general,  rather  than  local,  and  involve 
scientific  equipment  and  work.  It  is  obviously  the  intent  that  the  stations 
established  under  this  act  shall  carry  on  important  investigations  which  shall 
be  of  general  benefit  to  the  agriculture  of  the  several  States  and  Territories. 
The  sum  of  $15,000,  whick  is  annually  appropriated  by  Congress  under  this  act 
for  each  station,  is  only  sufficient  to  carry  out  a  limited  number  of  investiga- 
tions of  the  kind  contemplated  by  the  act. 

As  the  work  of  the  stations  in  the  different  States  has  developed  it  has  been 
found  necessary  to  limit,  rather  than  expand,  the  lines  of  work  of  the  individual 
stations.  Thorough  work  in  a  few  lines  has  been  found  more  effective  and 
productive  of  more  useful  results  than  small  investigations  in  numerous  lines. 
When  we  consider  the  nature  of  the  investigations,  the  amount  of  money  pro- 
vided for  the  work  of  each  station,  and  the  fact  that  the  act  expressly  provides 
for  only  a  single  station  in  connection  with  each  college,  it  becomes  very  clear 
that  expenditures  such  as  are  necessary  to  effectually  maintain  permanent 
substations  ought  not  to  be  made  from  the  funds  granted  by  Congress  to  the 
States  and  Territories  for  experiment  stations.  The  maintenance  of  permanent 
substations,  as  a  rule,  involves  the  erection  of  buildings  and  the  making  of  other 
permanent  improvements.  The  sums  of  money  which  can  be  expended  for  per- 
manent improvements  under  the  act  of  Congress  aforesaid  are  so  small  that  it 
is  clear  they  were  not  intended  to  meet  the  needs  of  more  than  one  station  in 
each  State  and  Territory. 

When  the  legislature  of  a  State  or  Territory  has  given  its  assent  to  the  pro- 
visions of  the  act  of  Congress  of  March  2,  1887,  and  has  designated  the  institu- 
tion which  shall  receive  the  benefits  of  said  act,  it  would  seem  to  have  exhausted 
its  powers  in  the  matter.  The  responsibility  for  the  maintenance  of  an  experi- 
ment station  under  said  act  devolves  upon  the  governing  board  of  the  institu- 
tion thus  designated.  If  the  legislature  of  the  State  or  Territory  sees  fit  to 
provide  funds  for  the  equipment  and  maintenance  of  other  experiment  stations 
and  to  put  them  under  the  control  of  the  same  governing  board,  well  and  good, 
but  this  does  not  in  any  way  diminish  the  responsibility  of  the  board  to  admin- 
ister the  funds  granted  by  Congress  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  said  act. 

The  wisdom  of  Congress  in  limiting  the  number  of  stations  to  be  established 
in  each  State  and  Territory  under  the  aforesaid  act  has  been  clearly  shown  by 
the  experience  of  the  few  States  and  Territories  which  have  attempted  the 
maintenance  of  substations  with  the  funds  granted  under  said  act.  The  expense 
of  maintaining  substations  has,  as  a  rule,  materially  weakened  the  centra] 
[Cir.  Ill] 


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station,  and  the  investigations  carried  on  at  the  substations  have  been  superficial 
and  temporary.  It  is  granted  that  in  many  States  and  Territories  more  than 
one  agricultural  experiment  station  might  do  useful  work,  and  in  some  States 
more  than  one  station  has  already  been  successfully  maintained ;  but  in  all  these 
cases  the  State  has  given  funds  from  its  own  treasury  to  supplement  those  given 
by  Congress.  It  is  also  granted  that  experiment  stations  established  under 
said  act  of  Congress  and  having  no  other  funds  than  those  provided  by  that  act 
will  often  need  to  carry  on  investigations  in  different  localities  in  their  respec- 
tive States  and  Territories,  but  it  is  held  that  this  should  be  done  in  such  a  way 
as  will  secure  the  thorough  supervision  of  such  investigations  by  the  expert 
officers  of  the  station  and  that  arrangements  for  such  experimental  inquiries 
should  not  be  of  so  permanent  a  character  as  to  prevent  the  station  from 
shifting  its  work  from  place  to  place  as  circumstances  may  require  nor  involve 
the  expenditure  of  funds  in  such  amounts  and  in  such  ways  as  will  weaken  the 
work  of  the  station  as  a  whole. 

As  far  as  practicable  the  cooperation  of  individuals  and  communities  benefited 
by  these  special  investigations  should  be  sought  and,  if  necessary,  the  aid  of  the 
States  invoked  to  carry  on  enterprises  too  great  to  be  successfully  conducted 
within  the  limits  of  the  appropriation  granted  by  Congress  under  the  act  afore- 
said. 

•PURCHASE    OR    RENTAL    OF    LANDS    FOR    AGRICULTURAL    EXPERIMENT    STATIONS. 

This  department  holds  that  the  purchase  or  rental  of  lands  by  the  experi- 
ment stations  from  the  funds  appropriated  in  accordance  with  the  provisions 
of  the  act  of  Congress  of  March  2,  1887,  is  contrary  to  the  spirit  and  intent  of 
said  act.  The  act  provides  for  "  paying  the  necessary  expenses  of  conducting 
investigations  and  experiments  and  printing  and  distributing  the  results.  *  *  * 
Provided,  however,  That  out  of  the  first  annual  appropriation  so  received  by 
any  station  an  amount  not  exceeding  one-fifth  may  be  expended  in  the  erection, 
enlargement,  or  repair  of  a  building  or  buildings  necessary  for  carrying  on  the 
work  of  such  stations ;  and  thereafter  an  amount  not  exceeding  five  per  centum 
of  such  annual  appropriation  may  be  so  expended."  The  only  reference  to 
land  for  the  station  in  the  act  is  in  section  8,  where  State  legislatures  are 
authorized  to  apply  appropriations  made  under  said  act  to  separate  agricultural 
colleges  or  schools  established  by  the  State  "  which  shall  have  connected  there- 
with an  experimental  farm  or  station."  The  strict  limitation  of  the  amount 
provided  for  buildings  and  the  absence  of  any  provision  for  the  purchase  or 
rental  of  lands,  when  taken  in  connection  with  the  statement  in  the  eighth 
section,  which  treats  the  farm  as  in  a  sense  a  necessary  adjunct  of  the  educa- 
tional institution  to  which  the  whole  or  a  part  of  the  funds  appropriated  in 
accordance  with  said  act  might  in  certain  cases  be  devoted,  point  to  the  conclu- 
sion that  it  wras  expected  that  the  institution  of  which  the  station  is  a  depart- 
ment would  supply  the  land  needed  for  experimental  purposes  and  that  charges 
for  the  purchase  or  rental  of  lands  would  not  be  made  against  the  funds  pro- 
vided by  Congress  for  the  experiment  station.  This  conclusion  is  reenforced 
by  consideration  of  a  wise  and  economic  policy  in  the  management  of  agricul- 
tural experiment  stations,  especially  as  relating  to  cases  in  which  it  might  be 
desirable  for  the  station  to  have  land  for  experimental  purposes  in  different 
localities.  The  investigations  carried  on  by  the  stations  in  such  cases  being  for 
the  direct  benefit  of  agriculture  in  the  localities  where  the  work  is  done,  it 
seems  only  reasonable  that  persons  or  communities  whose  interests  will  be 
advanced  by  the  station  work  should  contribute  the  use  of  the  small  tracts  of 
iand  which  will  be  required  for  experimental  purposes.  Experience  shows 
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that  in  most  cases  the  stations  have  had  no  difficulty  in  securing  such  land  as 
they  needed  without  expense,  and  it  is  believed  that  this  may  be  done  in  every 
case  without  injuriously  affecting  the  interests  of  the  stations. 

EXPENDITURES    BY    AGRICULTURAL    EXPERIMENT,    STATIONS    FOR    CARRYING    ON    FARM 

OPERATIONS. 

This  department  holds  that  expenses  incurred  in  conducting  the  operations  of 
farms,  whether  the  farms  are  connected  with  institutions  established  under  the 
act  of  Congress  of  July  2,  1862,  or  not,  are  not  a  proper  charge  against  the  funds 
appropriated  by  Congress  for  agricultural  experiment  stations  in  accordance 
with  the  act  of  Congress  of  March  2,  1887,  unless  such  operations  definitely  con- 
stitute a  part  of  agricultural  investigations  or  experiments  planned  and  con- 
ducted in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  the  act  aforesaid,  under  rules  and  regu- 
lations prescribed  by  the  governing  board  of  the  station.  The  performance  of 
ordinary  farm  operations  by  an  experiment  station  does  not  constitute  experi- 
mental work.  Operations  of  this  character  by  an  experiment  station  should  be 
confined  to  such  as  are  a  necessary  part  of  experimental  inquiries.  Carrying 
on  a  farm  for  profit  or  as  a  model  farm,  or  to  secure  funds  which  may  be  after- 
wards devoted  to  the  erection  of  buildings  for  experiment  station  purposes,  to 
the  further  development  of  experimental  investigation,  or  to  any  other  purpose, 
however  laudable  and  desirable,  is  not  contemplated  by  the  law  as  a  part  of 
the  functions  of  an  agricultural  experiment  station  established  under  the  act 
of  Congress  of  March  2,  1887.  Section  5  of  that  act  plainly  limits  the  expendi- 
tures of  funds  appropriated  in  accordance  with  said  act  to  "  the  necessary  ex- 
penses of  conducting  investigations  and  experiments  and  printing  and  distribut- 
ing the  results." 

FUNDS    ARISING    FROM    THE    SALE    OF    FARM    PRODUCTS    OR    OTHER    PROPERTY    OF    AN 
AGRICULTURAL    EXPERIMENT    STATION. 

This  department  holds  that  moneys  received  from  the  sales  of  farm  products 
or  other  property  in  the  possession  of  an  agricultural  experiment  station  as  the 
result  of  expenditures  of  funds  received  by  the  station  in  accordance  with  the 
act  of  Congress  of  March  2,  1887,  rightfully  belong  to  the  experiment  station 
as  a  department  of  the  college  or  other  institution  with  which  it  is  connected, 
and  may  be  expended  in  accordance  with  the  laws  or  regulations  governing  the 
financial  transactions  of  the  governing  board  of  the  station,  provided,  however, 
that  all  expenses  attending  such  sales,  including  those  attending  the  delivery 
of  the  property  into  the  possession  of  the  purchaser,  should  be  deducted  from 
the  gross  receipts  from  the  sales  and  should  not  be  made  a  charge  against  the 
funds  appropriated  by  Congress. 

LIMIT    OF    EXPENDITURES    OF    EXPERIMENT    STATIONS    DURING    ONE    FISCAL    YEAR. 

This  department  holds  that  expenses  incurred  by  an  agricultural  experiment 
station  in  any  one  fiscal  year  to  be  paid  from  the  funds  provided  under  the  act 
of  Congress  of  March  2,  1887,  should  not  exceed  the  amount  appropriated  to  the 
station  by  Congress  for  that  year,  and  especially  that  all  personal  services 
should  be  paid  for  out  of  the  appropriation  of  the  year  in  which  they  were  per- 
formed, and  that  claims  for  compensation  for  such  services  can  not  properly 
be  paid  out  of  the  appropriations  for  succeeding  years.  The  several  appropria- 
tions for  experiment  stations  under  the  aforesaid  act  are  for  one  year  only, 
and  officers  of  experiment  stations  have  no  authority  to  contract  for  expendi- 
tures beyond  the  year  for  which  Congress  has  made  appropriations. 
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This  is  plainly  implied  in  the  act  aforesaid,  inasmuch  as  section  6  provides 
that  unexpended  balances  shall  revert  to  the  Treasury  of  the  United  States, 
"in  order  that  the  amount  of  money  appropriated  to  any  station  shall  not 
exceed  the  amount  actually  and  necessarily  required  for  its  maintenance  and 
support."  The  annual  financial  report  rendered  in  the  form  prescribed  by  this 
department  should  in  every  case  include  only  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of 
the  fiscal  year  for  which  the  report  is  made. 

EXPENDITURES    BY    AGRICULTURAL    EXPERIMENT    STATIONS    FOR    A    WATER    SYSTEM    TO 
BE    CHARGED    UNDER    "  BUILDINGS    AND    REPAIRS." 

This  department  holds  that  expenditures  by  agricultural  experiment  stations 
from  the  funds  appropriated  in  accordance  with  the  act  of  Congress  of  March 
2,  1SS7,  for  the  construction  of  wells,  cisterns,  ponds,  or  other  reservoirs  for 
the  storage  of  water,  and  for  piping,  and  other  materials  for  a  system  of  storing 
and  distributing  water,  are  properly  charged,  under  abstract  18  in  the  schedule 
for  financial  reports  prescribed  by  this  department,  as  being  for  improvements 
on  lands  which  have  hitherto  been  held  to  come  under  the  head  of  "  buildings 
and  repairs."  The  fact  that  a  water  system  may  be  a  necessary  adjunct  of 
certain  experimental  inquiries  does  not  affect  the  case,  inasmuch  as  the  limita- 
tions on  expenditures  for  improvements  contained  in  section  5  of  the  act  of 
Congress  of  March  2.  1887,  expressly  stipulate  that  these  improvements  shall 
be  such  as  are  necessary  for  carrying  on  the  work  of  the  station. 

EXPENDITURES    BY    AGRICULTURAL   EXPERIMENT    STATIONS    FOR    MEMBERSHIP   IN    AGRI- 
CULTURAL AND  OTHER  ORGANIZATIONS. 

This  department  holds  that  membership  fees  in  associations  and  other  organi- 
zations are  not  a  proper  charge  against  the  funds  appropriated  by  Congress  in 
accordance  with  the  act  of  March  2,  1887,  except  in  the  case  of  the  Association 
of  American  Agricultural  Colleges  and  Experiment  Stations,  which  is  held  to  be 
an  essential  part  of  the  system  of  experiment  stations  established  under  said  act. 

THE    BORROWING    OF    MONEY    TO    PAY    THE    EXPENSES    OF    AGRICULTURAL    EXPERIMENT 

STATIONS. 

This  department  holds  that  experiment  station  officers  have  no  authority  to 
borrow  money  to  be  repaid  out  of  appropriations  made  under  the  act  of  Con- 
gress of  March  2.  1887,  and  that  charges  for  interest  can  not  properly  be  made 
egainst  funds  appropriated  under  that  act. 

THE    USE    OF    EXPERIMENT    STATION    FUNDS    FOR   COLLEGE    PURPOSES. 

This  department  holds  that  no  portion  of  the  funds  appropriated  by  Congress 
in  accordance  with  the  act  of  March  2,  1887,  can  legally  be  used,  either  directly 
or  indirectly,  for  paying  the  salaries  or  wages  of  professors,  teachers,  or  other 
persons  whose  duties  are  confined  to  teaching,  administration,  or  other  work 
in  connection  with  the  courses  of  instruction  given  in  the  colleges  with  which 
the  stations  are  connected  or  in  any  other  educational  institution ;  nor  should 
any  other  expenses  connected  with  the  work  or  facilities  for  instruction  in 
school  or  college  courses  be  paid  from  said  fund.  In  case  the  same  persons 
are  employed  in  both  the  experiment  station  and  the  other  departments  of 
the  college  with  which  the  station  is  connected  a  fair  and  equitable  division 
of  salaries  or  wages  should  be  made,  and  in  case  of  any  other  expenditures 
for  the  joint  benefit  of  the  experiment  station  and  the  other  departments  of 
the  college  the  aforesaid  funds  should  be  charged  with  only  a  fair  share  of  such 
expenditures. 
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EXPENSES    FOR   EXTENSION    WORK    NOT    CHARGEABLE    TO    THE    HATCH    FUND. 

[Extract   from   circular  letter  of  the   Director  of  the   Office  of   Experiment   Stations   of 

Feb.  25,  1909.] 

Expenses  for  extension  work  should  not  be  charged  against  the  Hatch  fund, 
and  *  *  *  only  such  printing  should  be  done  with  that  fund  as  will  record 
the  experimental  work  of  the  stations  established  under  the  Hatch  Act.     *     *     * 

EXPENDITURES   AND  ACCOUNTING  UNDER  THE  ADAMS  FUND. 
[Extract  from  circular  letter  of  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  of  Mar.  20,  1906.] 

Under  the  terms  of  the  act  it  will  be  necessary  that  a  separate  account  of 
the  Adams  fund  shall  be  kept  at  each  station,  which  should  be  open  at  all  times 
to  the  inspection  of  the  Director  of  the  Office  of  Experiment  Stations  or  his 
accredited  representative.     *     *     * 

The  Adams  fund  is  "  to  be  applied  only  to  paying  the  necessary  expenses  of 
conducting  original  researches  or  experiments  bearing  directly  on  the  agricul- 
tural industry  of  the  United  States."  It  is  for  the  "  more  complete  endowment 
and  maintenance"  of  the  experiment  stations,  presupposing  the  provision  of  a 
working  plant  and  administrative  officers.  Accordingly,  expenses  for  adminis- 
tration, care  of  buildings  and  grounds,  insurance,  office  furniture  and  fittings, 
general  maintenance  of  the  station  farm  and  animals,  verification  and  demon- 
stration experiments,  compilations,  farmers'  institute  work,  traveling,  except  as 
is  immediately  connected  with  original  researches  in  progress  under  this  act, 
and  other  general  expenses  for  the  maintenance  of  the  experiment  stations,  are 
not  to  be  charged  to  this  fund.  The  act  makes  no  provision  for  printing  or  for 
the  distribution  of  publications,  which  should  be  charged  to  other  funds. ,  *    *    * 

CLASSIFICATION  OF  STATION  ACCOUNTS. 

In  accordance  with  the  requirement  that  the  Secretary  of  Agricul- 
ture shall  prescribe  the  form  of  the  annual  financial  statement 
required  under  the  Hatch  and  Adams  Acts,  forms  are  issued  by  the 
Office  of  Experiment  Stations  which  provide  for  the  classification  of 
station  accounts  under  18  ledger  headings,  as  follows : 

(1)  Salaries — administrative,  technical,  and  clerical. 

(2)  Labor,  regular  and  temporary,  in  connection  with  experiments. 

(3)  Publications,  printing,  illustration,  envelopes  for  mailing,  etc. 

(4)  Postage  and  stationery,  including  means  of  communication,  such  as  tele- 

phone, telegraph,  and  cable  service ;  and  stationery  for  office  and  record 
purposes,  forms,  index  cards,  etc. 

(5)  Freight  and  express,  including  drayage  or  other  charges  for  handling 

freight. 

(6)  Heat,  light,  water,  and  power. 

(7)  Chemicals  and  laboratory  sup\)lies  for  all  departments  of  the  station,  not 

including  apparatus  of  permanent  character. 

(8)  Seeds,  plants,  and  sundry  supplies  not  otherwise  provided  for,  for  various 

departments. 

(9)  Fertilizers,  including  water  for  irrigation. 

vlO)  Feeding  stuffs  for  work  animals  and  those  under  experiment. 
(11)  Library — books,  periodicals,  and  binding,  but  not  including  equipment  or 
general  supplies. 
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(12)  Tools,  machinery,  and  appliances,  such  as  agricultural  implements  and 

machines,  motors,  mills,  pumps,  vehicles,  harness,  and  small  movable 
structures  like  animal  cages,  brooders,  or  shelters,  including  repairs  to 
same. 

(13)  Furniture  and  fixtures  for  offices     and  laboratories — desks,  cases,  type- 

writers, and  office  appliances. 

(14)  Scientific  apparatus  and  specimens,  including  mounted  insects,  fungi,  etc. 

(15)  Live  stock,  including  purchase  of  animals  of  all  kinds  for  work  or  experi- 

mental purposes,  but  not  their  feeding  and  care. 

(16)  Traveling  expenses  in  supervision  of  station  work  or  in  connection  with  it. 

(17)  Contingent  expenses,  to  be  itemized  in  detail. 

(18)  Buildings  and  land,  including  all  expenses  for  labor  and  material  for  the 

erection,  alteration,  and  repair  of  buildings,  permanent  structures  built 
in  place,  purchase  of  permanent  fixtures  forming  part  of  a  building, 
purchase  or  rental  of  land  (under  Adams  fund  only),  and  improvements 
on  land,  such  as  roads,  fences,  drainage  or  water  systems,  etc. 

REQUIREMENTS   OF  EXPERIMENT  STATION   ACCOUNTING. 

[See  circular  letter  of  the  Director  of  the  Office  of  Experiment  Stations  of  Mar.  1,  1911.] 

The  principle  which  should  guide  is  that  all  expenditures  from  the  Hatch 
fund  must  be  for  experimental  work  and  publications,  and  all  expenditures 
from  the  Adams  fund  for  the  projects  agreed  upon  in  advance  with  the  Office 
of  Experiment  Stations. 

In  adjusting  the  salaries  of  station  employees  only  such  portion  of  their  time 
as  is  occupied  in  connection  with  experimental  work  and  the  publication  of  the 
results  thereof,  including  correspondence  directly  relating  to  the  experimental 
work,  should  be  charged  to  the  Federal  funds  for  the  station.  All  business  and 
correspondence  connected  with  the  college,  inspection  service,  and  extension 
department  or  bureau  of  information  should  be  paid  for  from  other  funds. 

The  same  principle  should  be  applied  to  all  other  expenditures  from  these 
funds  for  the  maintenance  of  the  station. 

The  Adams  fund  expenditures  for  salaries,  labor,  travel,  apparatus,  books, 
and  maintenance  should  be  strictly  confined  to  those  necessitated  by  the  projects 
on  file  which  have  been  approved  by  this  office.  Each  voucher  should  be 
indorsed  with  the  title  of  the  project  for  which  the  expenditure  was  incurred, 
and  be  O.  K'd  by  the  officer  in  immediate  charge  of  the  project  as  well  as  by 
the  director. 

Separate  accounts  should  be  kept  for  the  Hatch,  Adams,  and  sales  funds,  and 
as  far  as  practicable  separate  vouchers  should  be  on  file  for  each  of  these  funds. 

The  sales  fund  should  be  used  only  for  experiment  station  work  and  publica- 
tions and  not  for  inspection  or  extension  work  or  compiled  publications. 

Bills  for  printing,  illustrations,  preparation  of  MS.,  or  mailing  of  publications 
should  not  be  charged  to  the  Hatch  fund  unless  the  publications  clearly  record 
the  experimental  work  of  the  station.  Popular  bulletins  charged  to  the  Hatch 
fund  should  expressly  show  that  they  embody  the  results  of  the  station's  experi- 
mental work.  General  bulletins  of  information,  circulars  containing  directions 
for  the  use  of  fertilizers,  spraying,  etc.,  which  are  compiled  from  well-known 
sources  of  information  or  embody  the  general  or  local  experience  of  practical 
men,  and  other  compiled  publications,  should  not  be  charged  to  the  Hatch  fund. 

The  expenses  of  tests  and  local  demonstrations  of  established  results  of  ex- 
perimental work  or  improved  practice  are  not  proper  charges  against  the  Fed- 
eral funds  for  the  stations. 
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In  keeping  the  station  books  and  vouchers  and  in  making  up  the  financial 
reports  strict  attention  should  be  paid  to  the  rulings  of  the  department,  the 
published  scheme  of  classification  of  accounts,  and  the  instructions  printed  on 
the  first  page  of  the  financial  schedule  and  in  connection  with  the  several 
abstracts  thereof. 

When  changes  are  made  of  accountants  or  clerks  the  requirements  of  the 
department  regarding  the  details  of  expenditure  and  accounting  should  be 
brought  to  the  attention  of  the  new  incumbents,  and  care  should  be  taken  that 
approved  methods  of  accounting  shall  not  be  changed  without  consideration  of 
the  department's  requirements. 
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